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Going back and reflecting

Submitted by ashaffer on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 6:21pm.

Considering culture, I am still wrestling with several questions:

1. How do we define culture?

2. Does culture disable b/c it's human nature (reductionist thinking), or b/c that's what society has done (whole is more than the sum of its parts)?

3. Could we make a culture that doesn't disable (anyone)? Would this still be a culture (Goes back to question 1)?

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